semestre

semestre (plural semestres)

1. Obsolete form of semester.

• semester

Borrowed from Latin sēmēnstris (“six months”), from sex (“six”) + mēnsis (“month”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [səˈmɛs.tɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [səˈmes.tɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [seˈmes.tɾe]

semestre m (plural semestres)

1. semester

• semestral

• “semestre”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “semestre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “semestre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “semestre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

semestre n

1. indefinite plural of semester

From Latin semestris (“six months”), from sex (“six”) + mensis (“month”).

• IPA^(key): /sə.mɛstʁ/
• Rhymes: -ɛstʁ
• Homophone: semestres

semestre m (plural semestres)

1. semester
2. semester, term (at a school or university)

• Turkish: sömestir

• trimestre

• “semestre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Latin semestris (“six months”), from sex (“six”) + mensis (“month”).

• IPA^(key): /seˈmɛs.tre/
• Rhymes: -ɛstre
• Hyphenation: se‧mè‧stre

semestre m (plural semestri)

1. (time) semester, half year

• semestrale
• sei

• semestre in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

From Latin semestris (“six months”), from sex (“six”) + mensis (“month”).

• Hyphenation: se‧mes‧tre

semestre m (plural semestres)

1. a period of six months
2. semester (half of school year)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:semestre.

• mês, bimestre, trimestre, quadrimestre

• semestral
• semestralidade
• semestralmente
• semestreiro

• “semestre”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

From Latin semestris (“six months”), from sex (“six”) + mensis (“month”).

• IPA^(key): /seˈmestɾe/ [seˈmes.t̪ɾe]
• Rhymes: -estɾe
• Syllabification: se‧mes‧tre

semestre m (plural semestres)

1. semester

• “semestre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from Spanish semestre, from Latin semestris (“six months”), from sex (“six”) + mensis (“month”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /seˈmestɾe/ [sɛˈmɛs.t̪ɾɛ]
• Rhymes: -estɾe
• Syllabification: se‧mes‧tre

semestre (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜋᜒᜐ᜔ᜆ᜔ᜇᜒ) (education)

1. semester

   Synonym: hatintaon

• “semestre”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018